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Big campaign news!

An anonymous donor has made a $20 million gift to launch the Georgetown Environment Initiative, an interdisciplinary program that will engage students across campuses in the study of society's impact on the environment and our planet's natural resources. Read more about the university's plans for the new initiative.

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Georgetown Magazine meets the tech generation!

All the Hoya content you've come to expect from the print magazine is now online, rebuilt with new features, stories and ways to connect with the Georgetown community. Explore the inaugural digital edition today!

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Happy Hoyaween!

Check out our slideshow of four decades of spooky, funny and topical Halloween costumes to see how generations of Georgetown students have gotten dolled up, suited up and made up for the Hilltop’s spookiest holiday.

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Students, faculty members and administrators reflect on the potential for accelerated growth in the sciences thanks to the newly opened Regents Hall.

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Where did your generation hang out on campus? Check out our slideshow of some of Georgetown's best-loved gathering spaces and read a selection of fond memories submitted by alumni.

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Our renovation of Dahlgren Chapel, supported by a generous gift from the Rooney family, is in full swing! This month, workers are waterproofing the chapel's new and existing foundation structure to protect it for future generations. The stained glass windows will be reinstalled in coming months—stay tuned for updates!

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See the fruits of the campaign in Georgetown's newly opened, state-of-the-art science building!

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Join multiple generations of Hoyas back on campus for Homecoming Weekend, Sept. 27-30. Don't leave Jack all alone!

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A faltering economy can mean uncertain futures on traditional career paths, but the unlimited possibilities of digital technology and crowdsourced funding platforms like Kickstarter are democratizing the startup process, giving enterprising minds the chance to see their dream business projects come to life.

Get to know a few millenial alumni who have stepped out on their own to bring something new to this generation's changing marketplace.

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To honor Elinor Bond Martin, M.D. (M'79, R'83), an ob/gyn who took a non-traditional path to medical school, Martin's family has created an endowed scholarship for the School of Medicine.

Martin's patients remember her as a passionate caregiver who treated them as fully-formed people, not just a set of numbers or medical statistics.

This scholarship will support the education of aspiring doctors in the Jesuit tradition for generations to come. Watch this video to learn more about Martin's remarkable life and the lives she touched.

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The next generation of Georgetown students arrived on the Hilltop this weekend, and we asked 11 of them about their hopes for the next four years. Read their answers on Georgetown Alumni Online.

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This summer, Georgetown's Career Education Center was named in honor of Charles M. Cawley (C'62, Parent'86, '88), a longtime leader of the university on the Board of Directors and Board of Regents. Cawley and his wife, Julie, have supported scholarships—Georgetown's top campaign priority—professorships and mentorship opportunities for decades.

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A classroom in the Medical-Dental Building is in the midst of its transformation into the W. Proctor Harvey Clinical Teaching Amphitheater, a cutting-edge facility that will enable real-time collaboration between students and clinical associates around the globe. Read more about Dr. Harvey's legacy and the generosity that's making this impressive project possible.

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Mary Beth Connell (M'89), the new president of the Alumni Association, discusses her leadership style and vision for her two-year term. For more of her interview, check out our Q&A.

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Watch campaign chair Bill Doyle (C'72) give the latest update on the state of the campaign.

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Check out the latest artistic renderings and blueprints of the largest capital project of the campaign: the Intercollegiate Athletics Center. 

The first new athletics facility on campus in more than 60 years, the four-story, 130,000-square-foot IAC will include basketball practice courts, locker rooms, an academic center for student-athletes and weight training facilities.

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"Have you any money to bet?" has been a well-known line of the Georgetown Fight Song for generations, but in 1928, one Hoya took his bent for betting to another level. SFS third-year F. Stanley Nishwitz proposed a bet that if Georgetown beat West Virginia in a football match, his childhood sweetheart Marjorie Morris would agree to marry him. Lucky for Nishwitz, Georgetown shut down WVU 12-0, which meant wedding bells for these two lovebirds. Read the full story on Ghosts of DC.